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FierceWiFi March 29, 2006
- Editor's Corner
- Mobile WiMAX certification labs up soon
- xG Technology to offer low-power handset
- NSA selects Harris' SecNet 54
- The dark side of muni-WiFi
- WiFi-assisted GPS system
- SPOTLIGHT: New Orleans can't catch a break
- ALSO NOTED: Intel investing in Brazilian WiMAX developers; Best WiFi hotels in US; and much more...
Editor's Corner
The forward movement on the WiMAX front is gathering speed. The paint on the walls of the fixed WiMAX certification test labs has not yet dried, and the WiMAX Forum is already aiming for a mid-year date for making the certification test lab of mobile WiMAX operational. All this is happening on the technology/standards side. The development of business models and rational for WiMAX …
Mobile WiMAX certification labs up soon
Last December the IEEE ratified the 802.16e amendment to its 802.16-2004 Air Interface Standard. 802.16e adds mobility to WiMAX, and now that mobility is ratified, the WiMAX Forum's Mobile Technical Group is developing the system profiles which will define the mandatory and optional features of the amendment that are necessary to build a mobile WiMAX-compliant air interface. One technology which is included in the amendment is scalable OFDMA technology, aiming to improve multi-path …
xG Technology to offer low-power handset
Sometimes mice do roar. Sarasota, FL-based start-up xG Technology made a splash last November when it demonstrated a low-power xMax wireless technology. Many treated the company's claims as more or less equal to Uri Geller's spoon-bending. The plucky start-up is pushing forward, however, saying it will start a marketing campaign in the U.S. by the end of the year for its innovative consumer handset. "In the U.S., we plan to utilize a grassroots marketing campaign to roll xMax out on …
NSA selects Harris' SecNet 54
Remember the days when secure facilities such as the U.S. national nuclear labs would not allow 802.11-based WLANs on their premises owing to anxiety about the technology security? Those days are almost behind us. In evidence: Melbourne, FL-based Harris has been awarded a five-year, $41.6 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract by the National Security Agency (NSA) to supply the company's new SecNet 54 Secure Wireless Local Area Network product to the U.S. federal …
The dark side of muni-WiFi
At times we should look a gift horse in the mouth. There is a rush of municipalities across the U.S. and Europe looking to develop free or low-cost WiFi zones. The goal is to provide the residents of these cities with always-on, high-speed Internet access. Leaders of cities say that creating these city-wide WiFi zones is not only vital for economic development and public safety, but they help insure that the digital divide between rich and poor is eliminated, or at least narrowed. …
WiFi-assisted GPS system
Skyhook Wireless has released software which uses WiFi to turn notebooks and wireless handheld computers into global positioning systems (GPS). The Loki software, now in beta, is based on WiFi detection and location software used to match 802.11 wireless signals transmitted from a user's PC with hotspots. Loki can map locations, pinpoint a particular event within a city or find a gas station with the lowest per-gallon costs. Users can also email their locations to friends and associates …
SPOTLIGHT: New Orleans can't catch a break
As if New Orleans did not have enough trouble, the Louisiana legislature is threatening to turn off the free WiFi network there, which was initially created as a temporary communication measure in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It was launched on the assumption that it would eventually be taken over by a corporate partner and turned into a paid service. Such a partnership has not been found so far, and the city is prohibited from running its own public WiFi network faster than 128 Kbps, …
ALSO NOTED: Intel investing in Brazilian WiMAX developers; Best WiFi hotels in US; and much more...
> EarthLink won the contact to deploy high-speed Internet access and deliver WiFi network services for city employees in a 6.5-sq.-mi. area of Milpitas, CA. Article
> Agilent Technologies announced the availability of the 802.11n wireless library for use with Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) …